Your Sacred Circle

AA wrote: Lass Dir von dieser Gesellschaft bloß nicht einreden, Du müßtest arbeiten, um wert zu sein! Bitte bitte nicht! Daß jemand Zeit hat und sich nimmt, kleine, goldene Geschenke in Worten in die Welt zu senden, ist so viel wert, ganz sicher viel viel mehr als irgendein Manager, der Wasser in Flaschen abfüllen lässt und das Arbeit nennt! Du tust Gutes! Mir und sicher den anderen, die Deine lieben kleinen Wortfreundlichkeiten lesen.

Your Sacred Circle

Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’re always in the middle of the universe and the circle is always around you. Everyone who walks up to you has entered that sacred space, and it’s not an accident. Whatever comes into the space is there to teach you.

                              Pema Chödrön: The Wisdom of No Escape

Unwanted events happen in our lives, difficult people cross our paths and we react by getting depressed, disappointed or angry. “Why does this happen to me?” 

At other times we’re suddenly in “the flow” and everything seems to fall into place without any effort - so many lucky coincidences, we can hardly believe it’s true. What have we done to deserve that?

Well, perhaps it's not what we’ve done or not done. We will never understand the Bigger Plan; it's not within our reach. We just need to accept what happens, knowing that the people and events we’re faced with come our way for a reason: life wants us to grow and develop. 

So when you feel that life is hard on you, or you fear your luck will turn, remember that you are always standing in the middle of a sacred circle and whatever enters it is there to teach you. Your task is to open up to the teachings.